Re: problem with debconf and start-stop-daemon

[Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>]

Steve Greenland <steveg@moregruel.net> wrote:

> Interesting. Would the following be a legitimate practice in the initscript?

>        start)
>                rm -f /usr/sbin/foo.running
>                ln /usr/sbin/foo /usr/sbin/foo.running
>                start-stop-daemon --start --exec /usr/sbin/foo.running
>        ;;
>        stop)
>                start-stop-daemon --stop --exec /usr/sbin/foo.running
>        rm /usr/sbin/foo.running
>        ;;

Unfortunately /usr could be read only.
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